Towards Independent Assisted Living: The Application of Intelligent Context-Aware Systems

Philip Moore, Cain Evans, George Tadros

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Abstract

The changing demographic profile of the population has potentially challenging social, geopolitical, and financial consequences for individuals, families, the wider society, and governments globally. The demographic change will result in a rapidly growing elderly population with healthcare implications including Alzheimer type conditions (a leading cause of dementia). Dementia requires long term care to manage the negative behavioral symptoms which are primarily exhibited in terms of agitation and aggression. This paper considers the issues and challenges implicit in the management of Alzheimer type conditions and dementia with a discussion around independent assisted living. Context is introduced with consideration of contextual information and the nature of knowledge. Context processing is discussed. We postulate that the challenges lie in the effective realization of independent assisted living, achieving this remains an open research question.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops
PublisherIEEE
Pages1180-1185
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-0-7695-4952-1
ISBN (Print)978-1-4673-6239-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2013
Event27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, WAINA 2013 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 25 Mar 201328 Mar 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, WAINA 2013

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, WAINA 2013
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period25/03/1328/03/13

Keywords

  • assisted living
  • conceptual models
  • dementia
  • intelligent context-aware systems
  • Kansei engineering
  • knowledge
  • sematics
  • semiotics

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